AUTHOR’S NOTE: For a year or more, I’ve wanted to build a low budget British-style “Café Racer” because it looked like fun, and I’ve always liked that style. A couple of weeks ago, I dragged home the rattiest, nastiest, most bedraggled piece of… Anyway, it was an old ’81 Yamaha XS 1100, and it was
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Kevin Aslop with the cast of “Sons of Anarchy” in 2010. Last years “Ride the Mountain” event hosted by Big Bear Choppers was so much fun with the cast of the “Sons of Anarchy” in attendance, that when Big Bear Choppers owners, Mona and Kevin Aslop asked if Bean’re and I could lead
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Hey, We’re in the middle of a holiday weekend, and I’ve got three bikes in the shop being build. They tug me away from this goddamn screen like a naked redhead blowing in my ear. I can’t stand it. You’ll run across a report about V-Twin and Ted’s Cycle below. This site had the balls
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He turned the dented knob, walked through the door and his eyes adjusted to the smoke and the darkness. The AC had been on for a while and it was colder the further he walked inside and almost freezing by the time he reached the bar. The stares of the local barflies and of the
Hey, This might be the wildest news ever, although a voice from South Carolina told me the lovely Nyla kicked my news ass last week–WTF. Okay, so I’m challenged to best her pithy news effort with Trike event shots from Art, the magnificent moto-journalists from Quick Throttle Magazine. We have Smoke Out shots from the
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It’s that time again, Tail Gunner here, it’s time to take a look at yourself, so to speak,This month I’ll be looking at the Fast Lane Mirrors from Wicked Image. These mirrors are designed to replace your OEM bat wing faring mirrors. The manufacturer says they are designed to fit ’96-’11 FLHT & FLHX. They
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You might think that the relationship between one motorcycle museum and another could be more competitive than cooperative, but that’s really not the case. A great example of the cooperative efforts of two motorcycle museums is the recent “trade” that’s been made between the Sturgis Motorcycle Museum & Hall of Fame and the National Motorcycle
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I came across this bike at this year’s Easyriders Show in Charlotte. I was impressed with the tight lines of the bike. As I read the info from the show poster, I saw that the owner, Eric Stein was a local, so I left my business card and the next day I received a call.
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Hey, With the help of a Bikernet reader, Anson Alexander, who has every issue of Easyriders, we discovered the first Renegade poem. He wrote a portion of this while he was in the hospital after a Southern Comfort bike accident. We typed it from the original page while drinking Jack Daniels, so don’t blame the
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When Robert told Beatnik there was a sculpture of a dog taking a shit to identify his house we were looking for something about 8-feet tall. The defecating dog is a wood sign that stands less than a foot tall, we rode right past it. Robert and Suzanne Williams gave the Beatnik, and I enough
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By Randy Leffingwell and Darwin Holstrom Foreward by Bill Davidson Motorbooks scores another home run with The Harley-Davidson Motor Co. Archive Collection. Now out in soft cover at 408 pages with 650 superb photographs the Archive Collection covers the H-D Museum collection in depth. From the 1903 “serial number one” to the 2008 Buell Model
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Westarted the Long Road ride in New Orleans with Anson, the Prince Najar and Edge.We rode to Destin, FL. I busted a shiftlinkage bolt and made it the last 80 miles on tiewraps. The next morning wefixed it with the help of bros in the parking lot. We rode out with the GangsterChopper crew, from
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THE AIM/NCOM MOTORCYCLE E-NEWS SERVICE is brought to you by Aid to Injured Motorcyclists (A.I.M.) and the National Coalition of Motorcyclists (NCOM), and is sponsored by the Law Offices of Richard M. Lester. If you’ve been involved in any kind of accident, call us at 1-(800) ON-A-BIKE or visit www.ON-A-BIKE.com.NCOM BIKER NEWSBYTESCompiled & Edited
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Bandit is in New Orleans taking some much-needed time off the enjoy the sights, the sounds, and the tastes of The Big Easy, before heading out on The Long Ride tomorrow with a group of guys. Allis well and quiet at the Headquarters; looking forward to a week of springcleaning while the big guy
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Hey, This is incredible. I picked up my Spitfire frames, front ends, forward controls, and a lot of Spyke and Compu-fire parts for our Mudflap FXR builds yesterday. And Saturday I’m outta here to New Orleans, jump a Victory Highball and haul ass to North Carolina for the Smoke Out. What a wild Adventure. I’m
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Well, I finally got a wild hair and decided my old Softail needed a little something extra for Sturgis this year. For the past couple of years I’ve attended about two dozen or so bike and hot rod shows. I’m always on the lookout for talent and possible paint schemes for the bikes. That’s when
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Here we are again. Life is nuts. About the time a good plan takes place, an ugly obstacle rears it mercurial head. That’s people. Danny, the lucky individual who we are building this bike for, flaked on us twice. Okay, so he’s an educated youngster with an ol’ lady, pushing for wifedom, a single baby,
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1981 hit motorcycling and Sturgis Bike Week like 00-buck against a roadside sign. The raucous city park heart of the party closed and a young Sturgis resident, who grew up around High School keg parties, wanted to give bikers a place to camp out and party away from both the Man and the city fathers.
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This is a totally oblique project for the Bikernet crew. For 10 years we worked with Ed Martin of Chrome Specialties. Ed owned the Jammer product line, and was the first guy to build today’s hot bobbers, tight and right. He hooked up with Custom Chrome and sold the Jammer name to the bros in
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The 23rd Annual I.O.O.B. Motorcycle Club Pig Roast: “Peace, Freedom, and Brotherhood Forever”! First off, I.O.O.B. translates to the International Order of Old Bastards. Now they clarify the use of the term “Bastard” with the following disclaimer: “The term “Bastard” in the I.O.O.B. is
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Hey, Incredible, I wish I knew what I was doing, but I don’t. At least our Bikernet Classifieds are growing and now they have a partnership with a company to add a jobs service, so we can find jobs, or advertise for jobs. We added Mr. Lucky’s bitchin’ shorty mufflers to the Amazing
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Me and Richard Wagner with Santa and friends. I keep thinking that when I get older I’ll have more time for “projects.” But as it is, the project pile continues to grow, and time is fleeting? I just don’t know where it goes. I can’t believe it’s already December. I haven’t caught up from Sturgis
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Hey, This week has been nuts. The Amazing Shrunken FXR is back, sold and we are dicking with it. In fact it had straight pipes and we are adding some Mr. Lucky shorty muffler tomorrow. I attended a local ABATE meeting this week on the Chowder Barge. There was only a handful of concerned folks.
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